Heeling-machine



GEORGE LEVAN, OF WEST EARL TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.:

REELING-MAGHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 10,599, `dated March 7, 1854.

To all whom 'it may concern.' l Be it known that I, GEORGE LEVAN, of

West Earl township, county of Lancaster,y and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedv new and useful Improvements in Doubling, Twisting, and Reeling Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference be. ing had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters of reference marked thereon,

making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention is a double disk with hinged Wings to rkeep the threads stretched, in combination with the sliding rail to stop any one division of the spindles.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is the frame work.l

B, is the spindles provided with pulleys. C, driven by ban-ds from a horizontal drum D- in the usual manner of driving spindles. On each of these spindles there is a disk E provided with two, three or more vertical pins on which turn freely the bobbins FV and from these bobbins the threads pass through guides or slanting apertures'G (in a double disk H) above and corresponding with the bobbins F, and from these all theV threads pass through a center guide I at the head of the spindle,I where the threads pass into holes or apertures, and are united `and twisted together by the rotation of the spindle B. The threads then pass over proper guides to the reel K back of the spindles on which the hanks or skeins are formed. This double disk H is formed of two metal plates soldered fast in their centers to the shaft or spindle B having six or more `vertical pins r upright posts dividing the plates H, and between two of the pins J each thread passes, there being twoy pins J for each thread. A lever or wing L operates on va hinge between two of the pins 'J,f0r the purpose of keeping the threads properly stretched and also when a thread is broken or bobbin empty, thelever or wing L flies back against one of the pins J lby the revolution of the double disk H, and is brought in contact with a projection M upon the sliding rail N which `stops the spindles and reel of one division, without delaying the operation of the remaining division and spindles. The sliding rail N eX- tending along the length of machine having a vprojection M opposite to each spindle. The ends of sli-ding lever P being operated upon by being clutches the drurn D) running through the main shaft R, while the opposite lever P draws the rail again back to its proper place,Il

revolves independent of the shaft.

rail N extend downward,and each end 1s attached to horizontal levers l) which throw the spindle and reel, viz, one whole divisionout of gear, by the" pressed downward bythe pin Q (which un'- What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The double disk H, as constructed with hinged wings L for the purpose of keeping the threads regularly stretched, andoperating the sliding rail N whenone of the threads is broken in the manner described.

GEORGE LEVAN. f

Witnesses:

W. T. AMWEG, H. S. MYERS.

byv shifting the drum D. The drum D 

